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iphone 15 pro & max Review

The Apple Iphone 15 Pro and Pro Max Review 

The iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max are defined by their refinements. This pair of phones is one of the most compelling releases from Apple in years

Tested the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max for five days, but it wasn't until I was photographing a bodega cat named Kit Kat that I realized just how many improvements these phones have. They are brimming. After I took Kit Kat's picture, I saw the option to turn his image into a portrait mode photo. It's a minor detail but one with a significance: Nearly any photo can now be a portrait photo. And this isn't even the biggest addition.

Apple gave its Pro models a glow-up with a refreshed lighter build, a new shortcut button and the world's smallest processor 3nm named Apple A17 Pro . And it did all this while managing to keep that tried-and-true iPhone aesthetic front and center. In my time reviewing both phones, I recorded videos of penguins swimming, played the console game Resident Evil Village on the 15 Pro, gave the 15 Pro Max's new zoom lens a spin atop a San Francisco Ferris wheel and tried, absentmindedly, to put a Lightning cable into the new USB-C port. Old habits, am I right?

iPhone 15 Pro design embraces titanium and USB-C

The new titanium body is lovely but picks fingerprints well, lighther than past pro max phones and easy to hold thanks to its ever-so-slightly rounded edges. It feels less bulky than the straight-edged 12, 13 and 14 series. In fact, it's almost like Apple merged the curved sides of the X, XS and 11 families with the blocky sides of recent years to find a Goldilocks-style middle ground with the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. That said, most people will likely put a case on the phone and not notice these changes at all.

There are two more major changes to the body. The first is the inclusion of a USB-C port instead of the Lightning port found on previous models. While the move definitely made headlines even before Apple announced it, in reality it's not a radical change. I now plug in a USB-C cable (which comes with the phone) instead of a Lighting one. But it's convenient to use the "one ring to rule them all" of charging cables.

Goodbye mute switch, hello action button

The mute (or silence) switch is gone and replaced with an action button. By default it lets you silence your iPhone, but you can also customize it to turn on the flashlight, record a voice memo and open the camera, among other things. I especially liked having it open the camera. Once the app is open, the action button doubles as a physical shutter button to take a photo. But the simple fact that I can use the button to trigger a shortcut multiplies its possibilities.

The button only reacts to two kinds of input: a tap or a press. It can only trigger one feature at a time which seems limiting. I do hope that Apple opens this up and lets people program multiple presses and taps to trigger different presets. Like maybe two presses in a row launches a shortcut and one press silences the phone. Right now, the only way to change what the button does is to go into the Settings app, scroll down to the action button and change it there. Also I'd welcome the ability to add a Control Center button that gets me into this action button menu quicker.

Camera

The iPhone 15 Pro Max's camera module may look the same as the last four generations of iPhones, but it's improved over the previous generation iPhone in both hardware and software. In terms of hardware, there's the new zoom lens. But while the main and ultra-wide cameras appear to be the same hardware as last year's, Apple introduced a new image processing algorithm for the main 48MP camera that outputs 24MP photos. Last year, the 14 Pro phones could shoot in either pixel-binned 12MP or full-resolution 48MP mode. Apple's approach this year is to snap both a 12MP and 48MP photo every single time you hit the main camera shutter: from there, the iPhone will merge the two photos to produce a 24MP shot that keeps the strengths of pixel binning while giving you more resolution to play with. As far as I can tell, I see no noticeable delay or lag in shutter speed or when I can preview a photo after it's been snapped. All the processing happens instantaneously.


Source:  Cnet and camera from Xda

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